Roast á la Brașov – A Different Take on Meat and Potatoes – with Recipe! There is a sort of unexplainable adoration around Roast á la Brașov (brassói aprópecsenye) which I myself have never really... 2021.07.09.
Körözött, Hungary’s Crème de la Crème – With Recipe! In the heat that is currently engulfing Hungary, people are less likely to have the motivation for cooking, and others... 2021.06.25.
Green Pea Stew – King of All Stews – With Recipe! Stews first showed up some time during the 16th century, but back then they were very different from their modern... 2021.05.28.
Breaded Chicken – The Crispy Meat That Everyone Considers Their Own – With Recipe! It is practically a given that if we ask 10 Hungarians what their favorite food is, at least 7 will... 2021.05.14.
Nyírség Dumpling Soup – An Old Hungarian Dish That is Slowly Disappearing – with Recipe! Certain Hungarian foods have origins which we know very little about, yet they have still been ingrained in our memory... 2021.05.07.
Egg Dumplings (Galuska) – Our Simplest Dish, but We Love It – With Recipe! If there exists such a thing as Hungary's favorite side dish, it is without a doubt Hungarian dumplings (known in... 2021.04.23.
Bear’s Garlic Pogácsa: The Scent of Spring – With Recipe! Early Spring is the time when a dense green thicket covers a few of Hungary’s forests, but without creating a... 2021.04.16.
Meat Will Be Allowed Again on Saturday, Add This Lamb Dish to the Feast! Easter is an ancient tradition, extending all the way back to 1400 BCE, to the Jewish holiday of Passover, or... 2021.04.03.
Our Favorite Lent Dessert, Mistakenly Given an Intriguing Name – With Recipe! We consider it to be among our most interestingly named foods, but like countless other dishes we have, barátfüle (friend’s... 2021.04.02.
Tócsni: From a Potato to a Miracle with a Thousand Names – With Recipe! I think we can confidently say that out of all our foods, the dish we know most commonly as tócsni... 2021.03.19.
The Ancestor of Every Stuffed Dessert: Bukta – with Recipe! We do not know exactly how long bukta has been around for, but its origin dates back to the first... 2021.03.12.
Small, Round, and Filled with Aphrodisiacs: The Perfect Valentine’s Day Coconut Ball – With Recipe! Many may assume that it would be pointless to look for Valentines day among the list of classical Hungarian celebrations,... 2021.02.13.
Pogácsa: The Food which Has Been Around since the Discovery of Flour – with Recipe! It has been with us for centuries, a staple good in all bakeries around Hungary. We have grown so used... 2021.02.05.
The Most Essential Hungarian New Year’s Food: Lentil Stew – With Recipe! Almost every country has its own New Year's food and traditions, and almost all of it is about the same... 2020.12.28.
Wine Soup: The Number One Christmas Dish of a Bygone Age – With Recipe! Nowadays, very few people group wine soup with traditional Hungarian Christmas dishes, and a whole generation may have never even... 2020.12.23.
Stuffed Cabbage, the ‘Grandmother’ of Hungarian Cuisine – With Recipe! Stuffed cabbage is not only a typical Hungarian Christmas dish, but one of the most popular, beloved, classic Hungarian dishes... 2020.12.20.
The Christmas Dish Dividing Hungary: Fisherman Soup – With Recipe! Fish soup is arguably the most controversial dish in Hungarian gastronomy, but it is also an important element of the... 2020.12.11.
A Traditional Hungarian Christmas Dessert: Poppy Seed Bread Pudding – With Recipe! In most households in Hungary, one can find at least one traditional Christmas food on the table with old peasant,... 2020.12.04.
The Most Delicious Medieval Tradition: St. Martin’s Goose and Red Cabbage – With Recipe! To be honest, I myself thought for too long that the Martin's Goose Day feast is a Hungarian folk tradition,... 2020.11.10.
Easy Twist for a Complicated Classic: Pumpkin-Poppy Seed Strudel – With Recipe! Our most popular and well-known pasta-based dessert, the strudel, or as we call it - rétes, is also the most... 2020.10.09.
An Oldie, but Goodie Hungarian Favorite: Dödölle – With Recipe! Many of us know this classic Hungarian dish as "dödölle," but it has many more names, including "ganca," "cinke," "gánica,"... 2020.09.25.
